Canada EE 2018 ½ Yearly Report: PR Visa ITAs hiked by 36%

Canada PR Visa ITAs have increased by 36% in 2018 as per the half-yearly report of for Canada Express Entry program. The June month was record-breaking that capped a 6-month run for PR Visa ITAs that were offered from January.

June 2018 witnessed 7,500 Canada PR Visa ITAs being offered to candidates in the Express Entry pool. This was more than 50% plus of the total ITAs offered in the month of June 2017, as quoted by the CIC News.

June 2018 is thus the biggest June for Express Entry after it was launched in 2015 January. June also concluded the first half of 2018 that offered totally 39, 700 invites. These were offered in the 13 draws held via the Express Entry system.

A key update in the last 6 months has been the similarity of draw sizes in the successive invitation rounds held by Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada. The second was that the draw sizes then enhanced by 500 or 250 roughly every 2 months.

IRCC offered 2, 750 PR Visa ITAs in the 2 draws that were held in January 2018. This trend commenced from 2017 November. It was followed by 4 draws offering 3,000 invites each in February and March with 2 draws in both months.

The Q2 2018 began with the draw held on April 11 that witnessed an increase in the number of ITAs to 3,500. This figure was constant in the next 3 draws till it was enhanced to 3, 750 invites in June.